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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:18:01 +0930

Re: MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:50:13PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> 
> Equally, I once dd-ed a disk over the root disk rather than
> dd-ing to a backup tape.  It took quite a while for the box
> to panic into the ROM monitor, as a lot of the basic utilities
> in that UNIX were statically linked.
> 
> Other classics of my poor typing are:
>  - mv *              (Older mv's will trash the last file)
>  - stty hup y        (Try and type "stty" to correct that error)


As mentioned recently on slashdot, I think,
http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-anecdotes.html

it seems that linus once overwrote his boot sector with ATDT and
a phone number by using the disk device instead of the serial
device for his modem connection.

The error I sometimes make is to kill all the sshd processes
while logged in remotely.

Another trick is to develop an "iptables" script remotely,
where you put in the default block-everything rule first,
and then a later rule fails because of a syntax error,
and then it never gets round to permitting your TCP port 22
to get through.
Now I start my scripts by making all chains accept-everything,
and I only block-everything at the end of the script.

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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